Dear Friends,

If you can register to Shareodie ( www.shareodie.com ) forum , please search for Ghost there . If the post is still there , the Norton Ghost Recovery Cd iso file can be reached in an upoad web site where the file had been sent by an Indýan ( I assume ) friend.The all information is in that post.If the post has been released , send me an e-mail ( gursel_yarkin@yahoo.com ) so that I can upload to any upload site you want , with the information in the Shareodie forum or a forum you tell me .

Hear from you soon ...

Gursel.

Although the spirit of the above post by GURSEL is admirable, it seems to me that he is indirectly encouraging illegal use of a Symantec product that specifies a license of "use one copy of the Software on a single computer."

If you have purchased Ghost 9.0 and you did not receive a Norton Ghost CD/Symantec Recovery Disk CD, then the appropriate solution is to contact the retailer from which the product was purchased (or Symantec) for replacement.  In the absolute worst case scenario, buy another copy of Ghost 9.0 - I have seen it on sale for as little as US$10 on many occasions.

Additionally, call me suspicious, but I would not trust an ISO file for the Norton Ghost CD/Symantec Recovery Disk CD from an unknown source.  Backup is too critical a subject to risk in this manner.

fawny1 wrote on Dec 28^th, 2004 at 2:58pm:

Sandra Jo, I'm assuming that you want to use Ghost 9 to "move" your PC hard drive from an old one to a new PC.  If this is true, the simplest thing to do is just physically remove the hard drive from your old PC and put it in the new one.  You then will probably have to do a Windows XP "repair install" because the PC's are not the same motherboard, etc.  
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=xp+repair+install

or search Google for "XP Motherboard change"
http://www.google.com/search?&q=xp+motherboard+change

There are often problems doing this because each motherboard is different and the drivers needed for the new pc are not on the hard drive from the old one.

To do the same thing is Ghost 9, I think you are on the right track but Ghost 9 emergency Recovery boot CD wants to restore your backup image onto an unformatted/unused portion of your hard drive.  This is for your protection so you don't accidently overwrite a good partition.

Read pages 72-73 of the Ghost 9 User Manual.
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/ghost/9.0/manuals/userg...

which says in part: " . . . .

In the Restore Destination window, select the destination where you want to restore the backup image file.

Some of the drives listed may be invalid selections because there is not enough free space for the restored backup image file or because you do not have rights to the drive.

If you want to free up disk space, select a drive, then
click Delete Drive.

This will free space if a single volume space on the
hard drive is not adequate.
. . . "

Caution:  If you overwrite or delete your new PC c: partition, it is GONE.

Also, read some of the notes in the FAQ section about Dell pc's and considerations if your new one is a Dell.

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No.

Ghost 9 and Ghost 10 run only in Windows XP (or Windows 2000).

There is a Rescue boot CD that you boot from in case you have a hard drive failure and need to restore your backup image onto a replacement hard drive.